German All-in-One For Dummies, with CD

Wendy Foster teaches Business English, German, French, and intercultural communication skills. She also does editing for online German education programs. Wendy received her degree in German studies at the Sprachen-und-Dolmetscher-Institut in Munich and later her MA in French at Middlebury College in Paris. Paulina Christensen has been working as a writer, editor, and translator for more than 10 years. She has developed, written, and edited numerous German-language textbooks and teachers' handbooks for Berlitz International. Dr. Christensen recieved her MA and PhD from Dusseldorf University, Germany. Anne Fox has been working as a translator, editor, and writer for more than 12 years. She studied at Interpreter's School, Zurich, Switzerland, and holds a degree in translation. Most recently she has been developing, writing, and editing student textbooks and teacher handbooks for Berlitz.

• Introduction 1Book I: Getting Started with German 7Chapter 1: Warming Up to German Basics 9Chapter 2: Handling Numbers, Times, Dates, and Measurements 31Chapter 3: Meeting and Greeting: Guten Tag! 53Chapter 4: Talking about Home, Family, Friends, and Daily Life 77Chapter 5: Talking Telecommunications, Business, and Current Events 97Chapter 6: Shopping Simplified 119Chapter 7: Dining Out and Buying Food: Guten Appetit! 137Book II: Speaking German on the Go 165Chapter 1: Locating Places 167Chapter 2: Going Out on the Town 185Chapter 3: Planning a Pleasure Trip: Gute Reise! 203Chapter 4: Finding a Place to Stay: Gute Nacht! 227Chapter 5: Getting Around 243Chapter 6: Handling Emergencies: Hilfe! 263Book III: Assembling the Grammatical Foundations for Communication 281Chapter 1: Laying Out the Basics to Build Sentences 283Chapter 2: Sorting Out Word Gender and Case 307Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 331Chapter 4: Asking and Answering Questions 353Chapter 5: Describing and Comparing with Adjectives and Adverbs 379Chapter 6: Modifying Verbs with Helpers: The Modal Auxiliaries 411Chapter 7: Instructing and Commanding: The Imperative Mood 429Chapter 8: Sorting Out Separable- and Inseparable-Prefix Verbs 445Book IV: Building Detail and Precision in Your Communication 463Chapter 1: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 465Chapter 2: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 479Chapter 3: Using Reflexives and Other Verb Combinations 493Chapter 4: Conversing about the Past: The Present Perfect and Past Perfect 507Chapter 5: Narrating the (Simple) Past: Fact and Fiction 525Chapter 6: Looking to the Future (And Avoiding It) 537Chapter 7: Describing Your Mood: Summing Up the Subjunctive 549Book V: The Appendixes 563Appendix A: Verb Tables and Case Charts 565Appendix B: German-English Mini-Dictionary 587Appendix C: English-German Mini-Dictionary 599Appendix D: Fun & Games 611Appendix E: About the CD 655Index 659